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#SOUTH KOREA: Yoon gains support. David Maxwell, Center for Asia pacific Strategy.

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 7 January 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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#SOUTH KOREA: Yoon gains support. David Maxwell,  Center for Asia pacific  Strategy. 
1800s Korea

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0:00.0

This is CBSI in the world.

0:05.8

I'm John Batchel with Gordon Chang.

0:07.3

I've Gordon-Gee Chang, my colleague and co-host.

0:10.0

We go to David Maxwell to help us understand North Korea's dilemma.

0:15.5

It's in two pieces right now, the South Korean and the North Korean part.

0:20.7

We begin with the easy one, which is the

0:22.4

North Korean part. North Korea's new missile test signals little appetite for detente with

0:27.6

Trump, writes the Wall Street Journal. Subhead, and first weapons launched since the U.S.

0:32.7

election, Kim Jong-un regime opts to show defiance rather than restraint.

0:38.8

That's the simple version of the Korean Peninsula.

0:41.4

Now we go to the complicated one.

0:43.9

Dateline sold January 5th within these hours, Royers.

0:48.2

The Chief of Security for South Korean President Yun Suk Yowel said on Sunday, South Korean Sunday, he could not cooperate with efforts

0:58.8

to arrest the impeached president in remarks that could push the political crisis towards another

1:05.0

high-stakes confrontation. With a warrant for Yun's arrest on grounds of insurrection set to expire at midnight, Monday,

1:13.8

which would be just about now, the officials cited the legal debate surrounding the warrant

1:20.1

as the reason for the lack of cooperation. Okay, I'm lost. David, a very good evening to you.

1:25.8

I knew the complicated part was going to come second,

1:28.3

a missile test. I know how to do that. David is vice president of the Center for Asia Pacific

1:33.5

strategy. The police are refusing. And in the FT, I heard a remark about let the CIA, the K-CIA,

1:41.2

do it. What is the contest, David? Good day to you. Yeah, of course, the K-CIA, do it. What is the contest, David?

1:44.4

Good day to you.

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